Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate"
Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish
If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...
Dissertation Title: "To Whom? Essays on Health Resource Allocation in Organ Transplantation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings"
Under reasonable resource constraints, not all legitimate health needs can be met – necessitating some form of...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Migrant Health Policies and Programs: From the Normative to the Positive"
As the population of migrants continues to grow, ensuring migrant health needs are met is a global-public health priority. This dissertation examines...
Dissertation Title: "Risk and Sport: Individual, Institutional, and Ethical Considerations"
This dissertation applies tools from health services research to the college sports medicine context. The first two papers analyze a sample survey of college...
Dissertation Title： "Who Counts? The General and the Particular in Health Care Policy Making"
It has been a dilemma to count and balance the general and the particular in health care policy making. This thesis aims to explore this issue by addressing the...
Dissertation Title： "Forbidden Harms and Permissible Benefits: The Moral Status of Third Parties in Clinical Research"
The crux of this dissertation is the premise that third parties, non subjects, have moral status that ought to be recognized in the...
Dissertation Title： "The Consumer’s Role in Nursing Home Quality"
My thesis focuses on the consumer's role in nursing home quality. Using five years of data from Massachusetts Department of Public Health (1998-2002), the first chapter explores whether...
Dissertation Title: "Dimensions of Disadvantage: Normative and Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Public Insurance on Low-Income Children and Families"
This dissertation considers some challenges to delivering effective and equitable health care to...
Dissertation Title："Conflicts of Interest among Oncology Clinical Trial Investigators and among Patient Advocacy Organizations, and Patient Preferences and Health Care Disparities"
The first paper is entitled "Relationships Between Authorship Contributions...
Dissertation Title："Essays in Ethics and Health Policy"
In 1999 New York enacted Kendra’s Law, in memory of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who was pushed to her death in front of an oncoming train by a man with untreated schizophrenia. Under Kendra’s Law a...